Elysia Greenway and Viviana Conti, graduate students from the Forensic Art MSc course at Dundee University, have used special 3D scanners to build up digital versions of skulls discovered during excavations to create lifelike facial reconstructions to reveal what people living in Leith up to seven hundred years ago may have looked like. These will…Continue Reading Facial Reconstruction breakthrough
Jade Montserrat takes us through her top five books in the newest instalment of “What I am Reading Now…”. Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD at IBAR UCLan, and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She works…Continue Reading What I am Reading Now: Jade Montserrat
Museum services are excited to announce that they will be hosting an event on today at 7pm to celebrate the new book D’Arcy Thompson’s Influence in Art. This online event will feature illustrated presentations by the book’s editors, Ellen K Levy and Charissa N Terranova. Many of the other authors will also be present to…Continue Reading Book Launch – D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences
Every year, the University’s Museum Services works with students on the Museum & Gallery Studies postgraduate course at the University of St Andrews to provide work placements as part of their coursework. One of this year’s student interns, Mattea Gernentz, has curated a fascinating and thoughtful online exhibition exploring the human body through works of…Continue Reading Online Exhibition exploring the Body
Every year, the Dundee Women’s Festival, a city‐wide event, takes place in Dundee, during the first two weeks of March including International Women’s Day on 8th March. This festival is organised by women in the local community and is an established and popular festival. This year is the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day and…Continue Reading Dundee’s Wonder Women of Science
Craft it on is Feeling Strong’s latest art project you can take part in from home! While the schools and universities are shut Feeling Strong have taken this opportunity to help people connect through art. This event will take place over the course of four weeks where you will be given the chance to work…Continue Reading Craft it on
Christine Kingsley from DJCAD writes about her daily walks along a river during lockdown and how the space, sights, sounds and her sketches help her through lockdown. Although written last year, our lives are much the same now and Christine’s words and images point to a way we can all, through appreciating nature, find a…Continue Reading Walking for wellbeing – my river shift
The Cooper Gallery are getting ready to launch their new exhibit, The Ignorant Art School: Sit-in Curriculum #1. At the heart of The Ignorant Art School is a Sit-in Curriculum, a packed timetable of actions, workshops and gatherings facilitated by artists, designers, activists, and culture workers. Rejecting inequalities of access by arranging anti-colonial, anti-racist and…Continue Reading Sit-in Curriculum #1
CreateSpace: Being creative in the virtual space The Library and Learning Centre (LLC) CreateSpace was set up in Summer 2019 as a space within the Main Library dedicated to helping all students try something creative, learn a new skill or simply take a break from their academic work. The CreateSpace proved a real success with…Continue Reading CreateSpace
We are excited to bring attention to an online collection of writing and art as the first instalment of These Windows. This collaborative project between the University of Dundee and the V&A Dundee aims to present an online gallery gathered on DURA to showcase the skill of both DJCAD Illustration BDes students as well as…Continue Reading The Three windows project
As a part of the “Thinking Photography” group, Zhaneta Zhekova, a student from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design has been looking at statuary in Dundee and how has often overlooked. As a result, she has taken incredible black and white photos of Dundee’s 19th and early 20th century sculptural carvings which she…Continue Reading Thinking Photography: Zhaneta Zhekova
Despite the ongoing limitations due to the pandemic, third year students from DJCAD were still able to visit the Botanic Gardens and their inspiration from these visits can be seen in their work. Have a look at the inspired work from the students of the Art, Science and Visual Thinking 2020 module in their showcase:…Continue Reading Level 3 DJCAD Showcase